The grieving kin urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to complete her investigation before she leaves office in January.

The family of police choke victim Eric Garner Thursday urged Attorney General Loretta Lynch to complete the Justice Department's investigation into his death before she leaves office in January.

At a special holiday charity event, Garner's children joined elected officials and community leaders in their call for federal indictments against the officers involved in the July 17, 2014 death of Garner, which was ruled a homicide after his arrest on a Staten Island street.

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The family remains frustrated over failed efforts to bring criminal charges against any of the cops, especially Officer Daniel Pantaleo who was accused of taking Garner down with a chokehold that was banned by the department.

Garner's family helped served food with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network's annual Feed the Hungry service.

(From l.) Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, The Rev. Al Sharpton and Public Advocate Letitia James feed the hungry on Thanksgiving at Sharpton's National Action Network. (Susan Watts/New York Daily News)

"Today is bittersweet for me because he's not here asking me when the food's going to be ready," Garner's widow, Esau, told the Harlem crowd.

"Let's just keep the fight going. We're not going to give up."

Despite working a desk job without his gun and shield, Pantaleo managed to earn an extra $40,000 in overtime.

Cops were trying to arrest Garner on an allegation he was selling loose cigarettes when Pantaleo placed him in a banned chokehold and wrestled him to the sidewalk. Garner pleaded for his life, saying, "I can't breathe" over and over again.

A viral video of the of the takedown was captured on cellphone video, and it became a flashpoint for the Black Lives Matter movement that has grown with subsequent police-involved deaths of black victims.

Sharpton expressed an urgency for the Justice Department to reach a conclusion before the Obama administration leaves the White House.

“We only have seven weeks, and the garner family has been patient,” Al Sharpton said of the probe, headed by Attorney General Loretta Lynch (pictured.) (Cliff Owen/AP)

"I would hope the Justice Department would conclude its investigation before the new administration gets in, whatever the conclusion is," Sharpton said.

"We only have seven weeks, and the Garner family has been patient."

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Public Advocate Letitia James, who helped Sharpton dish out turkey and all the trimmings to hungry guests, talked about the growing levels of poverty in New York and across the nation.

She also spoke out against hate crimes on the rise before and since the election.

"We will not normalize hate," James said. "We will fight back. We will organize."